Making the first test kite using the dimensions given in the Internet article already quoted.
Made of a single sheet of strong paper - available from the Ulverston Scrap Store
We'll see how it flies and modify- it won't last long but long enough to tell us what we want to know. When we've got a design that flies well, then we can make about five out of the beautiful materials we have for making Flags.
Want to get involved with your ideas of where to go next?
There are lots of easy kites that can be made - we could have a workshop day undercover and make a hundred in no time at all - then we could string them all up together and have a chain of them stretching up into the sky. Fly them off the top of Hoad or Ford Park or Lightburn or The Gill.
If there is 'no' wind then we use the delta kite above to haul the others up high were there almost certainly is some.
Ever made a single string fighter kite which you can use to fly wherever you want when you know how! Even make it skim along over water with one tip touching the water - never managed it myself but seen it done when some Japanese Kite makers visited Welfare State Internaitonal. Bill Kitsen of Sun street is also an Kite expert and has organised kite flying off Hoad at Easter in the distant past. Jack says he has a kitemaking manual.
Your ideas and involvement only too welcome.
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